Definition of "pearl-fishing" [pearl-fishing]

• Pearl-fishery. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It was pearling season, so we encountered small fleets of pearl-fishing dhows anchored above fresh oyster beds about fifty feet below the surface."
• "It's an old pearl-fishing town, now mainly a tourist resort (with some very up-market bits)."
• "By 1800 Cleghorn was on the boat home, accused (wrongly) of some questionable business relating to the government pearl-fishing industry (he had been in charge of it and some had gone missing)."